This enlightening guide enables adolescent girls to address more than just weight loss—it explores concepts such as empowerment, self-esteem, and healthy lifestyle choices. Teenage girls are given the tools to recognize and break away from unhealthy patterns, including harmful diets, by discussing the many ways in which depression, anger, and low self-esteem can translate into eating and weight gain and how to find healthier, less destructive ways of coping. Supportive information details what girls can do to attain a healthy body and mind, and provides tips on how to help parents be more supportive. Educational but fun quizzes and games focus on diet and exercise, as well as coping mechanisms for dealing with the media, peer pressure, and eating disorders.
Dr. Susan Bartell is a nationally recognized psychologist, consultant and multi-award winning author in suburban New York. She is also a much sought after speaker lecturing widely on a broad range of topics.
Her mission is to help adults, teens and kids recognize they can have greater control over their emotional and physical health, and can improve the quality of their lives, by teaching them a range of skills to successfully meet even their most challenging moments head-on. Her goal is to provide a perspective that allows people to balance life's demands through coping strategies so they can truly value the positive aspects of their lives.
Dr. Bartell is a recognized media expert who can frequently be found offering advice on national networks including CNN, CBS, ABC, and on shows such as Good Morning America, The Today Show, 20/20 and The Early Show, as well as on national and local radio stations across the country. She is also frequently quoted in print media including USA Today, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, FIRST for Women, Woman's Day, MSNBC.com, WebMD and CNN.com. She is also an expert advisor, with masthead credit, to KIWI magazine.
Dr. Bartell is the author of seven books, The Top 50 Questions Kids Ask series; Dr. Susan's Fit and Fun Family Action Plan: 301 Things You Can Do Today; Dr. Susan's Kids-Only Weight Loss Guide; Dr. Susan's Girls-Only Weight Loss Guide: The EASY, FUN way to Look and Feel Good! ; Stepliving for Teens; and Mommy or Daddy: Whose Side am I On?.
She is also the founder and director of two websites, www.girlsonlyweightloss.com and www.havinganotherbaby.com, and pens a nationally syndicated column, A Teachable Moment, which reaches well over half a million readers in the U.S. and Canada.
